By 2020 all of Madrids 1.6 million households and 3.2 million inhabitants will be sorting their organic waste ready for collection. Link:
Mais »Madrid on the way to getting organic waste right
By 2020 all of Madrids 1.6 million households and 3.2 million inhabitants will be sorting their organic waste ready for collection. Link to full article
Mais »Climate change initiatives waste management challenges
MARINA Local residents can expect a temporary reprieve from rising garbage fees brought on by new state regulations, but officials say waste management is currently undergoing dramatic changes that will eventually drive up waste management prices. Link to full article
Mais »Madrid on the way to getting organic waste right
By 2020 all of Madrids 1.6 million households and 3.2 million inhabitants will be sorting their organic waste ready for collection. The stakes are high: if the city succeeds in diverting all their organic waste from landfill, they will avoid CO2 emissions in the region of 2.4 million tonnes each …
Mais »Where your recycling REALLY ends up: Mountains of rotting rubbish go to landfill after sitting in limbo for TWO YEARS
Recyclables left rotting for more than two years will be dumped in landfill Link:
Mais »Where your recycling REALLY ends up: Mountains of rotting rubbish go to landfill after sitting in limbo for TWO YEARS
Recyclables left rotting for more than two years will be dumped in landfill Link to full article
Mais »Madrid on the way to getting organic waste right
By 2020 all of Madrids 1.6 million households and 3.2 million inhabitants will be sorting their organic waste ready for collection. The stakes are high: if the city succeeds in diverting all their organic waste from landfill, they will avoid CO2 emissions in the region of 2.4 million tonnes each …
Mais »Recycling is becoming so expensive that some towns dont know what to do
WESTFIELD On a recent afternoon here, with urgency in the air, local officials huddled to consider what until recently was unthinkable. Should they abandon their popular curbside recycling program? Or spend millions to build a plant to process plastic and paper on their own? Link:
Mais »Recycling robot ‘Daisy‘ part of Apple‘s effort to end mining for resources
Apple‘s efforts to improve its recycling has an end goal of becoming a "closed-loop" manufacturer in the future, an extremely difficult goal to accomplish, and one that would end the need to mine for new materials if achieved by the iPhone maker. Link:
Mais »When recycling fails, how will we deal with the tonnes of plastic waste we produce?
Recycling may feel good, but in practice, it often just means dumping plastic in Southeast Asia for other countries to deal with. And when they cant, plastic often ends up in landfill anyway. So how to remedy the situation? Link:
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